The speed the red fog was spreading at had dropped by more than 50%, but there was still nothing they could do but fall back further and further away.
Huo Zhou was 300 km across from east to west and 240 km from south to north. To its west was Kumtag Desert, which was 400 km straight across, making it a rather sizeable buffer zone. To the south were Yangji and Yiwu and to the north Bayan. On the east abutted the province of Xining at a place called
They were mostly evacuating towards the south, going through Yiwu then to Longxi Province. They didn't have a choice. Longxi was the corridor linking the Northwest to the Central Plains and they could not allow anything happen to it.
The fog was advancing in all directions at irregular paces. It was not spreading out like a perfect circle.
